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the varying attractiveness of the social services offered to the respondents

with housing being separated from schools and medical services.

for

and the

The respondents' preference of greater job security in general and

provision of more social services over higher income suggests that the

picture, painted by England and Rear, etc., of the Hong Kong worker as

being totally dominated by money, needs to be modified.

The workers in the

sample did not choose income over all alternatives and more questions

dealing with respondents' preference for other ceneral social and economic

improvements in Hong Kong could perhaps be developed here. ·

Summarizing the survey findings so far it appears that the respondents

wanted from or in)

for their jobs a good income, a high level of security, good

working conditions, good welfare benefits and a just employer; the most

important of these was a good income. The workers in the sample felt

moderately satisfied on these points by their present jobs. They felt that

any improvements should come about through joint consultation although

there was some variability within the group here. The respondents would

prefer an increase in income to improvements in such fim-specific factors

as welfare benefits, working conditions, hours and rest days but when it

of came to factors on a more general level such as the problemyjob security

in Hong Kong and the provision of social services, they preferred improve-

ments in these aint higher income.